List of tables
2.1
Compliment formulae (Manes/Wolfson 1981: 120–123; results by Rose 2001)
2.2
Felicity conditions for Positive Remarks, compliments and positive assessments
2.3
Response categories following Pomerantz (1978)
2.4
Herbert’s (1989) distribution of compliment Response Strategies
2.5
Distribution of the Response Strategies used by Americans (Chen 1993 and Schneider 1999)
2.6
Connection of compliment formulae and response distribution (Sims 1984: 99)
2.7
Frequency of compliment topic and compliment response function (Sims 1984: 110)
2.8
Positive Remark abbreviations in the working model
3.1
Conversations chosen from the Santa Barbara Corpus of spoken American English
4.1
Levels of pragmatic analysis (Schneider/Barron 2008: 19–21)
4.2
Coding of references in the PosR sequence
4.3
Syntax patterns 3, 4, 6, and 8 (Manes/Wolfson 1981)
4.4
Combination of syntax patterns 3, 4, 6, and 8 into a supercategory
4.5
Syntax patterns 1 and 9 with their positive semantic core
4.6
Rearrangement of the syntax patterns into four supercategories
4.7
Formulaic overview of sequence organization
4.8
Preliminary grouping of Response Strategies according to the function of the Positive Remark
4.9
Response Strategies in Positive Remark sequence
4.10
Groupings of Response Strategies: preferred strategies
4.11
Groupings of Response Strategies: dispreferred strategies
4.12
Structural categories of turns following a Positive Remark
4.13
Overlap and parallel conversation coding
4.14.
Types of listener responses (O’Keeffe/Adolphs 2008: 74–80)
4.15
Sentence types and functions
4.16
Topic categories and samples
5.1
Comparison of the percentages for AmE compliments
5.2
Syntax patterns of the four supercategories
5.3
Total numbers of PosR supercategories
5.4
Topics of the Positive Remark supercategories in the present data (overall sequences and individual utterances)
5.5
PosR categories and distribution of their responsive turn categories
5.6
Substrategies of opting out in the tuoth_non-addressee turns
5.7
Substrategies of opting out in the tuoth_addressee turns
6.1
General description of reference in subcategories
6.2
Numbers and examples of _adj_ realizations
6.3
Realization patterns of subcategory _A1_
6.4
Realization patterns of subcategory _A2_
6.5
Forms of listener response
6.6
Realization patterns of subcategory _A3_
6.7
Realization patterns of subcategory _A4_
6.8
Realization patterns of subcategory _A5_
6.9
Interactional structure of _adj_ and its subcategories
6.10
Numbers and examples of the _noun_ realizations
6.11
Realization patterns of subcategory _N1_
6.12
Realization patterns of subcategory _N2_
6.13
Realization patterns of subcategory _N3_
6.14
Realization patterns of subcategory _N4_
6.15
Realization patterns of subcategory _N5_
6.16
Interactional structure of _noun_ and its subcategories
6.17
Numbers and examples of _verb_eval realizations
6.18
Realization patterns of subcategory _V1_
6.19
Realization patterns of subcategory _V2_
6.20
Realization patterns of subcategory _V3_
6.21
Realization patterns and numbers of subcategories _V5a_ and _V5b_
6.22
Realization patterns and numbers of subcategories _V4_ and _V6_
6.23
Interactional structure of _verb_eval and its subcategories
6.24
Turn organization of the supercategories
7.1
Comparison of Positive Remark and compliment distribution inresearch
7.2
Distribution of address terms in the respective supercategories
7.3
Usage of subcategories in respective supercategory
7.4
opting out distribution (TUOTH only)
7.5
explaining distribution (TUOTH only)
7.6
agreement distribution (TUOTH only)
7.7
agreement distribution in _adj_ subcategories (TUOTH only)
A.1
Abbreviations used
B.1
Listing of appendix tables from Appendix B
B.2
Overview compliment research
B.3
Selected studies on Response Strategies based on Pomerantz (1975, 1978).
B.4
List of intensifiers
B.5
Detailed account of Response Strategies in Positive Remark sequences
B.6
Structural features of utterances in PosR sequences
B.7
Distribution of Response Strategies
B.8
Distribution Response Strategies and topic
B.9
Interactional structure of the subcategory pron/det_head verb(int) adj.
B.10
Distribution of Response Strategies used in _adj_ subcategories
B.11
Distribution of Response Strategies used in _noun_ subcategories
B.12
Distribution of Response Strategies used in _verb_eval subcategories
B.13
Response Strategies distribution in _adj_ tuoth_non-add
B.14
Response Strategies distribution in _adj_ tuoth_add
B.15
Response Strategies distribution in _noun_ tuoth_non-add
B.16
Response Strategies distribution in _noun_ tuoth_add
B.17
Response Strategies distribution in _verb_eval tuoth_non-add
B.18
Response Strategies distribution in _verb_eval tuoth_add
B.19
Address in PosR
B.20
Wordlist of chosen texts (top 20)